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Argentina adds 34 cases and two deaths from coronavirus
Most of the confirmed coronavirus cases in Argentina are imported, although as of Thursday, four affected persons who contracted the disease in the country were detected.
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Updated on 03/13/2020 at 19:49
Buenos Aires [EFE]. Argentina added its second fatality due to coronavirus and three new infected people this Friday, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 34 in the South American country while the Government analyzes new prevention measures to slow down the local advance of the pandemic.
The Health Ministry reported tonight that two of the three new cases are citizens with a history of travel to countries with high circulation of COVID-19, while the third is close contact with another previously confirmed coronavirus patient.
SECOND DEATH VICTIM BY THE CORONAVIRUS
Meanwhile, a 61-year-old man who had pre-existing diseases is the second fatality due to coronavirus in Argentina, official sources confirmed this Friday to Efe.
The victim is the engineer C?sar Cotichelli, a professor at the National Technological University, who had returned a few days ago from a trip to Europe and at the time of his death was hospitalized in a serious condition in a private sanatorium in the northern province of Chaco.
According to provincial government sources, the man had tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.
The victim, who was a career employee of the state-owned Energy Services Company of Chaco and president of its board of directors between 2013 and 2015, had other ailments: he underwent surgery last December for a hernia, suffered from hypertension, diabetes and coronary problems, and did a year and a half also had pneumonia.
This death is the second in Argentina from COVID-19, after the authorities reported on March 7 the death of a 64-year-old patient, a resident of Buenos Aires, who had been in Europe and suffered from diabetes, hypertension, chronic bronchitis and kidney failure.
NEW CONTACTS IN ARGENTINA
Most of the confirmed coronavirus cases in Argentina are imported, although as of Thursday, four affected were detected who contracted the disease in the country and who have had "close contacts" with people who were infected in countries with high circulation of COVID-19. , while a “community transmission” has not yet been verified.
To prevent the spread of the virus in the country, the President of Argentina, Alberto Fern?ndez, decreed the health emergency due to the coronavirus, which, among other measures, will entail suspending international flights from Europe and the United States for 30 days, among others. areas affected by the disease.
This Thursday, when announcing the emergency in a message issued by the national network, Alberto Fern?ndez indicated that, in addition, health controls will be strengthened at all points of entry to Argentina: “We will be very strict in monitoring the movement of people at our borders "
CLASSES ARE NOT SUSPENDED
The Government decided while not suspending classes in schools and universities, considering that children "are not susceptible to acquiring the disease" and, instead, after receiving training in schools on prevention measures "can become effectors of health in their families ”, explained the Minister of Education, Nicol?s Trotta.
The decision was made "unanimously" by the Inter-ministerial Committee to monitor the coronavirus, despite the fact that the province of Jujuy (north) decided to suspend classes at its schools for 15 days.
The Health Minister, Gin?s Gonz?lez Garc?a, pointed out that "the child population is not attacked or is attacked very gently" and, on the other hand, warned that "if the children are not in school they are in other places that may be more complicated , and are in contact with those who care for them, which may be older adults ”, who are more at risk from a possible spread of coronavirus.
FROM TUESDAY, FLIGHTS SUSPENDED
On the other hand, this Friday it was established that the suspensions of flights from the areas affected by the coronavirus decreed on Thursday will begin to take effect effectively from next Tuesday to allow until then the return of residents in the South American country.
Transport Minister Mario Meoni, by note to the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), instructed the airlines affected by the restriction to operate until Monday flights from affected areas, such as Europe and the United States.
The Transport ministry indicated in a statement that this period was given until Monday, inclusive, "for the purpose of dealing with humanitarian circumstances of exceptional need that allow the return to the homes of resident passengers and crews" in Argentina.
SCOPE OF RESTRICTIONS
This Thursday, Fern?ndez signed a decree of necessity and urgency to declare a health emergency due to coronavirus and adopted, among other measures, the thirty-day suspension of international passenger flights from "areas affected" by the disease.
The decree establishes the member states of the European Union, members of the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and Iran as "areas affected" by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the provisions of the Ministry of Transport, starting next Tuesday, the state-owned Aerolineas Argentinas will be exclusively authorized to carry out the transfer operations to and from the affected areas.
"Until Monday, inclusive, airlines will operate to transport passengers to their respective countries, that is, those tourists who are in Argentina today, and Argentines who are abroad can return to any airline that they operate towards Argentina ”, Meoni said this Friday in a press conference, after a meeting of the Government Cabinet headed by Alberto Fern?ndez.
The minister indicated that work is being done with Aerolineas Argentinas, which will have the exclusivity of operations from Tuesday, to establish a flight action plan to destinations in Europe and the United States that have a direct connection with Argentina...
